It might need one to make replies, but it's the only one that's allowed to start topics, so it'll probably still be able to.
I'm absolutely sure Badspot made a workaround for it. I don't see why he wouldn't.
We're just curious if he forgot the bot in the changeover. He missed Quick Posting at first. Not like it'd be difficult to give it an exception, but what if he forgot to do it right away?
Hopefully he made a little administrator checkbox to tell if you need a serial and unchecked it for the bot. Even better, all bots, if they have such classifications on here... They should.
Can't there be some sort of sync between the forum name and the in-game name?
At least so you can see it on profile (and maybe on posts under forum name).
Imagine someone who keeps changing their name ingame, to things such as "Ilikeroosters," "Baldspot," and all those. It would be terrible.